--- title: The Mali Empire was one of the richest states in the world in the 13… — Africa: countries and capitals · tree and pragmatics description: The Mali Empire was one of the richest states in the world in the 1300s, and Mansa Musa's pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 carried so much gold that its price fell in Cairo. Who acts: Mali Empire, pilgrimage, price. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mali Empire, pilgrimage, price), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:013-africa-countries-and-capitals.lesson:17 # text = The Mali Empire was one of the richest states in the world in the 1300s, and Mansa Musa's pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 carried so much gold that its price fell in Cairo. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 013-africa-countries-and-capitals.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Mali Mali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 richest rich ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 amod _ _ 9 states state NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 1300s 1300 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 5 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nmod 16 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 Mansa Mansa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ _ 19 Musa Musa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 flat _ _ 20 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 21 pilgrimage pilgrimage NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Mecca Mecca PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 1324 1324 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nmod _ _ 26 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:advmod 28 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 29 gold gold NOUN NN _ 26 obj _ _ 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 Cairo Cairo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the Mali Empire | one | | the 1300s | | of the richest states in the world | tree rules | | 2 | **carry** | past | Mansa's pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 | much gold | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | | 3 | **fall** | past | pilgrimage's price | | | Cairo | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in cairo=Location | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:geography:013-africa-countries-and-capitals.lesson:17`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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